Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Automating GP Preferences
In a recent posting on the Activedir.org mailing list, I happened to mention that we're getting ready to release v. 2.0 of our GPExpert(r) Scripting Toolkit. The Toolkit is actually getting a new name, but I won't spoil the surprise for now. However, the key feature...
Group Policy Preferences and the Registry
So, the other day I was trading some email with a friend and mentioned that I was working on a nifty little utility to allow someone to import the contents of a .reg file into Group Policy Preferences registry extensions using the command-line. He commented that it...
AGPM Planning Guide released
Just a quick note for those of you using or thinking about using Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) product for Group Policy Change Control. MS has just released a planning guide for AGPM...
Intro to Win 7 GP PowerShell Cmdlets
I previously blogged about how Microsoft is going to deliver some PowerShell cmdlets in Windows 7 for Group Policy. Now that Windows 7 beta is out, information is starting to flow about what these will look like. A recent blog post by the GP product team at...
More on the Group Policy Health Cmdlet
In a previous post, I mentioned that the Group Policy Health Cmdlet was now a free download at www.sdmsoftware.com/freeware. The Health Cmdlet is a PowerShell utility for collecting Group Policy processing health against one or more remote systems. The cmdlet returns...
MVP for Another Year…
Well, I received the always welcome email yesterday indicating that my Group Policy MVP status has been renewed. Its an honor to receive this status, though I have to admit that it was touch and go as yesterday dragged on with no notification, until I realized that...
Group Policy Health Cmdlet now free!
We've updated our PowerShell-based Group Policy Health cmdlet and made it free up on our website at www.sdmsoftware.com/freeware. For those of you who have not seen the Health Cmdlet, this is a command-line tool for retrieving GP processing health against...
4th Edition of O’Reilly Active Directory Book is out!
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the 4th edition of the Active Directory Book from O'Reilly is out, courtesy of AD MVP Brian Desmond. For those of you who aren't familiar with this book, its an invaluable resource for Active Directory...
Finding and Disabling GPO Links using PowerShell
I had a question come up today about a use case for our GPMC cmdlets and figured it was worth sharing for other's benefit. Here's the scenario. I have a GPO who's name I know. I want to find all the places that its linked and then I want disable all the...
SDM Software Ships GPO Compare Product for spotting GPO inconsistencies
Today we shipped our new GPO Compare 1.0 product. This is something I've wanted to do for a while--provide a standalone product to help IT administrators quickly find inconsistencies between GPOs. With GPO Compare, I think we've delivered a cool new...